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The High Street Bridge is a double-leaf bascule drawbridge spanning 296 feet of the Oakland Estuary in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States. It links the cities of Oakland and Alameda. The bridge is opened approximately 1,400 times annually and carries an average of 26,000 vehicles per year.
BRIDGEWATER — The new High Street bridge is open. Traffic resumed Tuesday. The bridge had been closed since June as part of an $8.2 million project that demolished the old dam and rebuilt the ...
The Oakland Estuary (then known as San Antonio Creek) was first crossed by the Webster Street swing bridge for narrow gauge rail and road traffic, completed in 1871. [2] [3] [4] A second crossing was added in 1873 as the Alice Street swing bridge, [5] built for Central Pacific (later Southern Pacific) rail traffic.
The island was originally a peninsula and a part of Oakland and is now separated from the mainland by the Oakland Estuary. The island is connected to the mainland by six bridges: the Park Street Bridge, the Fruitvale Railroad Bridge, the Miller Sweeney Road Bridge, the High Street Bridge, the Bay Farm Island Bridge, and the Bayfarm Island ...
The bridge deck and portions of the road leading to the bridge will be resurfaced. The $763,516 project also will include minor structural repairs. Work is expected to begin May 13 and to be ...
Oct. 16—Demolition work that was expected to take place this weekend on the Fourth Street NW bridge over Interstate-90 has been pushed back a few weeks, while the Oakland Avenue bridge is ...
High Street Bridge Bay Farm Island Bridge Although the estuary was used by Native American tribes inhabiting the local area since about 4000 BC, the earliest recorded history of the Oakland Estuary dates primarily from events extending back to the 19th century, as detailed in a research study conducted by Earth Metrics for the U.S. Army Corps ...
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